The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-05-26
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.

INTERESTING TIL f PEOPLE.
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
The Wadesboro Messenger is very kind.
1t says the STATE CHRONICLE ought to be
a daily, that coming but once week it
fills person too full, and adds:
but, it may be said, we need not take
in all at once. Just as we'll put a plumb
pudding before hungry boy and tell him
not to eat it all.
Mr. Edward A. Oldham, editor of the
Winston Sentinel has decided to accept
the position rendered him as managing
editor of the Admission (Ala.) Hot Blast,
of which Mr.. Jas. r. Randall, author of
MY Maryland" is editor in chief. We
hate. to lose Mr.. Oldham from North Car
olina Journalism, and wish him a large
measure of success in booming Alabama.
The bronze statue of John C. Brecken-
ridge which is to adorn the public park at
Lexington, KY, has been cast. The sculp-
tor, E. Y. Valentine of Richmond, Va,
has done some of his best work on the
model Breckenridge is represented in
the act of making speech. The figure is
of heroic size, erect and imposing. The
head is especially fine and true and the
face is full of expression. The monument
will be unveiled with great ceremony in
October.
DR.. Henry D. Coggswell, the San Fran
cisco millionaire, has z lven 81, O00, 200 for
the endowment of a school in San Fran
cisco, where trades Will be taught to any
girl or boy who is qualified to be admitted
as a student EX-
Now if some North Carolinian would
give an amount, one twentieth OF the
above, there would be no ''hitch" about
establishing at once the North Carolina
college for industrially training the boys
and girls of North Carolina.
The ten cotton States will hold an Inter
States Convention at Atlanta on the 10th
OF August The Governor will appoint one
farmer from every county in the State to
attend the Convention. There is to be a
Committee of one from each State on Re-
port and Programme. Governor Scales
aas appointed Col L. L. Polk as the North
Carolina member of that Committee. This
Will be an important meeting, as 1t will
consider the causes that have operated
TO prevent the business of farming from
being remunerative.
The difficulties that originated at the
town Of Babel may to some extent be
overcome by the extending use of a new
universal language. No scheme of this
sort has ever approached success before;
but within very few years the artificial
language called Nolapuk has met with
vide acceptance in several European coun-
tries and is now finding its way in Ameri-
ca description of this new tongue, in
the June number of the American maga-
zine, given by Richard Walker, shows that
it is very easy to acquire; and its useful
ness must constantly increase, as the CIR
Gle of those who employ it is rapidly
charging
The most umental gerrymanderlng
OF the age is that done by the Pennsyl-
week in sort of orgy. The purpose was
to crowd the Democratic counties into six
districts Even Republicans cry out
against such unfairness. The Philadel-
phia Times describing the eighteenth dis
trict says, it ''reaches halfway across the
State. and would reach two-thirds s'of the
way across if it were straight instead OF
resembling crooked ''leg." Other dis
trcts are similarly made. As regards
population, the Democratic counties OF
Berks and Lehigh, with Al 900 voters, are
Joined in one district, while Lackawanna
county, with only $4,000 voters, is also
made Of itself district.
Not very long ago one answer, and only
one, would have been made by most per
sons, whether learned or simple, to the
question, ''What is the Object OF Llfel
viz, in the words of the catechism, ''Io
serve God and to keep his command
ments" Nowadays tie Sunday school
expication of the mysteries of life and
death is received with less docility, and
the solution of the great problems is sought
in other directions Hence the announce
ment that the Forum for June is to con
tain the first Of a series of papers on 1.-The
Object of Life is likely to be received
with considerable interest by thoughtful
readers This initial article of the series
is to be contributed by Prof. George }.
Romanes, disciple Of the late Charles OAR
win 1t will exhibit the views OF an
eyolutionist philosopher on this welghty
question.
1t has long been known that Queen VIC
toria cherishes something like feeling OF
personal animosity for Mr.. Gladstone
Much of this, no doubt, is similar IN Its
nature to the intense dislike with when
She once regarded Lord Palmerston dead
ing in the end to his expulsion from the
foreign office and which had its origin IN
the belief that he paid too little respect to
the prerogatives of her royal Office. But
her hostility to Mr.. Gladstone is also
largely due to her apprehension as to his
political creed. Radcalism is not popu-
lar at Court, and Home Rule, which the
Wind +oLao Tn ha a very DANGEROUS